How to Use voyeur in a Sentence
voyeur
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Let the schadenfreude ring and the voyeur in you rejoice.
—Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
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Without the skin, the view of the fuselage is a car voyeur's wet dream.
—David Diamond, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
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At this point, the town voyeur has moved on to bigger things.
—Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 7 May 2020
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Some of the women described the voyeur as a white man, 25 to 35, wearing a black jacket.
—Longreads, 5 May 2022
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If there is something funny or unsettling about it, the onus is on the voyeur, not the film.
—John Paul Brammer, NBC News, 9 May 2017
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The song’s video features a troupe of exotic dancers turning the tables on the voyeurs who watch them.
—Christa Titus, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2017
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Talese follows Foos and covers his life, watching the watcher and viewing the voyeur.
—Janaya Wecker, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2022
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While watching them over, Jughead finds a new kind of tape by the voyeur, as the people of Riverdale are now calling the maker of these videos.
—Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2021
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Philyaw is a voyeur of a kind, training her gaze on the furtive activities of Black women.
—The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
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Guests are voyeurs, invited to watch the dance of chef’s preparation, to ask questions.
—Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Oct. 2019
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So a neatly pulled out joke or clap back from another celeb was a delightful gift for the voyeur in me.
—refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2018
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At first, Oona is more a voyeur than an active participant in her life.
—Mary Cadden, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020
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Another one-third are voyeurs or might try a little bit of something.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2017
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Lennon, the crowd, you, and I are all voyeurs, transfixed by something horrible, the newsworthy death.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The Atlantic, 18 May 2017
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The voyeurs around the world logged onto a YouTube stream Wednesday, hoping to see a random hotel guest scurry about their room.
—Alex Horton, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
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Wrestlers told Politico that coaches, like Jordan, often had to kick voyeurs out of the sauna and practice areas.
—Tara Golshan, Vox, 13 July 2018
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One of the reasons for that is that Laveau is credited with bringing Voodoo into the open and displaying it for white voyeurs, writes Pruyn.
—Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 23 June 2017
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Some shots seem to be from the perspective of a voyeur, standing in a dark room, squinting through a house plant to peep at what’s happening yonder.
—Casey Gerald, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2020
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In other words, this is house candy at its most delicious, tailor made for voyeurs like me.
—Marni Jameson, NOLA.com, 5 May 2019
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Soon, the Long Island Sound broadened, and the plane veered away from the shoreline, offering little for a real-estate voyeur to ogle.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
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The chef is shown constantly tasting in segments that will send a frisson of delight to foodie-voyeurs.
—Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 4 June 2018
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The parasitic bloom-red flower has long grabbed the attention of scientists and voyeurs alike.
—Emma Ogao, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
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But the season wasn't able to wrap up its big mystery around the town voyeur sending everyone super creepy videotapes.
—Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2020
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The quietness outside, the ability to be a voyeur, how funny and shameless and alive the city is, and will probably always be, even without you in it.
—Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
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More sophisticated voyeurs may use spy gear that has its own hot spot for livestreaming.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, The Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2019
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In encountering them, Fraleigh hopes that the viewer feels not like a voyeur, but instead, like an intruder.
—Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
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Footage has been shared widely online, uploaded to streaming sites and shared on voyeur forums.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
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Researchers found that the voyeurs had no effect on the monkeys' stress levels, though perhaps, the sight of red-faced monkeys bathing in the snow has some stress-lowering effects for us.
—Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2018
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In it, a voyeur ends up getting stalked himself, a modern social-stalker story.
—Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 11 Oct. 2022
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For the news media, wealth voyeurs and many of the rich themselves, the ability to track jets and yachts provides welcome transparency and safety benefits.
—Robert Frank, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
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